Now its all like selecting prom king\queen!
The Founders warned us!
Which? If you read the account of the Virginia Ratifying Convention, Henry's warning was met with Hamilton's bombastic smoke screen, Madison's stammering, and Randolph's incredulity. How much of that was for rhetorical purposes we'll never know.
Madison's reaction was particularly disturbing to me because of his genius, but he was young enough he might have been prone to unwarranted idealism. Hamilton clearly knew what he was doing but we'll never know the degree of his intrigues were justified by his belief in the need for the country to raise money for a navy. Don't know enough about Randolph to come to any conclusions.